stephen warren

ex-LP member ,ex-mental health worker, anti-brexit, pro Progressive Alliance occasionally not obsessed with the news.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

Three cheers for Gordon Brown - a really imaginative and ingenious set of proposals to address the scandal of child poverty costing taxpayers virtually nothing. Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that https://t.co/WryAengw1e

[Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ @LaylaMoran]

It’s not the hope that kills, it’s the lack of a ceasefire.

We are a step closer. Finally.

#UNSC #CeasefireNOW

[David Miliband @DMiliband]

#UNSC Resolution 2728 must be implemented immediately, and all council members must work for a sustained ceasefire. Efforts must not delay the beyond-urgent need for aid delivery, including removal of obstacles to aid across Gaza and use of all routes and border crossings.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Tonight, across the North of Greater Manchester, four decades of bus deregulation are coming to an end.

From tomorrow morning, over 50% of GM’s buses will be back under public control. 👍🏻

Thank you to everyone working through the early hours to bring in the @BeeNetwork! 🙏🏻

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

Armando Iannucci responds to Jeremy Hunt’s gaslighting #bbclaurak

“it's almost like we're in a Dickens novel, rather than 6th biggest economy in world”

Child poverty rates (JRF 2024)

UK 20%

Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%

Shameful

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Sunak's continued attacks on Starmer's role as Chief Prosecutor is an attack on our courts, an attack on the legal right to a defense, an attack on the foundations of our democracy and it has to stop #pmqs

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Remember Palantir’s heavily redacted contract with NHS England?
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It turns out they hadn’t finalised what was on those blacked-out pages when it was signed:
https://t.co/gdTB9Uytj4

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The Canadian government has announced it is halting all arms sales to Israel.

That is what the UK government also needs to do.

We must stop arming Israeli war crimes.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

APPALLING
Tory govt signed a controversial £330+million contract with Palantir to give them all of OUR PRIVATE MEDICAL DATA.

Now it's has revealed that much of this contract is still being negotiated.

This is possibly illegal. @GoodLawProject is onto it
💪🏼

@StefSimanowitz ⏬️

[Kirsty Brimelow KC @Kirsty_Brimelow]

From family of a pregnant woman who repeatedly had been refused bail.

I was brought in to try again. II relied on recommendations since baby Aisha Cleary’s death & high risk categorisation of prisons for pregnant women.Successful.

Unexpected reminder of why I’m a barrister.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

@Conservatives You have defunded the criminal justice system to the point of collapse.

Every day I meet victims of the most serious, appalling crimes, whose agonies have been exacerbated by the system that you have broken.

There has never been a government as soft on crime as @RishiSunak’s.

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes

A devastating read on the violence being inflicted on people, especially women, in Sudan. One of the largest humanitarian crisis in history unfolding.

#KeepEyesOnSudan https://t.co/fWkbOYREvM

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

As Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid continue to escalate, the 2.3 million residents of Gaza face the imminent risk of famine.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://t.co/0Pb1uJipM5

[Prof. Devi Sridhar @devisridhar]

Deliberate starvation. Before Oct 7th, acute malnutrition was largely nonexistent in Gaza.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

So Rishi Sunak used an RAF helicopter to fly him from his Yorkshire house to Coventry yesterday to make a speech.
That's party business, not state business...
We shouldn't be paying for the extortionate travel preferences of this completely detached-from-normality bloke😡

[GreenJJNews @GreenJJNews]

Economy 🇬🇧 Pt 2
"Norway has an oil fund worth $1.4 trillion... The UK should be even better off but we handed it all over to the private sector... Have to ask where did all the money go? 171 billionaires now. Why isn't a wealth tax the number one priority?" @GreenJennyJones

[Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ @LaylaMoran]

27 Palestinian children have already died from starvation. We need a bilateral ceasefire immediately to get aid in, to get the hostages home, and to put a stop to the killing.

So today I asked the Govt to stop abstaining, and vote for a ceasefire at the UN Security Council.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Delighted to congratulate @TracyBrabin in-person as she takes buses back into local control.

Tracy is leading the way, reinvesting in communities and putting Labour values into action. A vote for Tracy on 2 May is a vote for a better West Yorks. 🌹

[Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ @LaylaMoran]

Thames Water have dumped over 72bn litres of sewage into the Thames since 2020, yet refused to contribute to a pollution-reduction initiative.

Oxfordshire residents are fed up with this environmental vandalism, we need total transformation of the sector.

https://t.co/20vhOYY6jr

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Very poor show that the Speaker did not grant Diane Abbott a question today